Building-sheating means.



PATENTED JULY 24, 1906.

J. SPELMAN. BUILDING SHEATH-ING MEANS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 19.1905.

IIIII/flfI/ lllfl/I/Il/I klzmes @eZmgzz UNITED STATES JAMES SPELMAN, OF CHICAGO. ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR COMPANY, OF CHICAGO. ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

BUILDlNG-SHEATHING MEANS.

Massages Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 24, 1906.

Application fil d Jmle, 1905. Serial No. 265,901.

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, JAMES SPELMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago,

also the roof) for protecting them against the weather and, furthermore, with relation to the walls for producing insulating air-space between them and the sheathing.

To facilitate securing the sheathin on the walls, it is common to rovide rigi ly supported on the outer s aces ofthe latter at vertical intervals of about four feet anglev bars in horizontal position on each of which to fasten means for securing the corrugated metal sheathing-plates,- but a difficulty encountered in fastening the sheathing by the means referred to is that due to the shallowness of the space between the wall and the sheathing, which excludes workmen therefrom to cooperate in the fastening work, as by opposing solid abutments to the points of riveting from the outside the plates to the fastening means. The consequence is that the Work of fastening is done, as it were, in the dark and is therefore usually defective, rendering the sheathing loose and causing it to rattle in the wind and liable even to be torn off and carried away by the wind when it blows with great force.

My primary object is toprovide a medium for fastening the sheathing in place which shall render it rigidly secure, thus avoiding rattling, and effectively resistant to displace-' ment or dislodgment and which shall enable the sheathin to be fastened in place with facility from tie outside thereof; and to this end my invention consists in. the general, as well as the more specific, construction ef the means I have devised for accomplishing my aforesaid object.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a broken perspective view illus trating the application of my improvement; Fig. 2, an enlarged. section taken at the line 2 on Fig. 1 and viewed in the direction of the arrow; Fi 3, a section taken at the line 3 on Fig. 2 an viewed in the direction of the arrow; Fig. 4, a broken pers ective view illustrating a modification, an Fig. 5 shows the said modification by a view like that presented by Fig. 2.

A denotes a wall of a steel building having fastened to its face by angular brackets a at suitable intervals an angle-bar B, shown spaced from the wall-surface. As will be understood, a desired number of these angle bars is provided on each wall of the buildin similarly fastened in place at suitable vertical intervals-say about four feet apart. As the bar B is shown in Figs. 1 and 2, its position on the wall places its angle outermost. On each'angle-bar are applied, as by hookin them about it to extend transversely thereo clips C in desired number to be placed at suitable inter'valssay of about twelve inches the ends of each clip, which is of eneral yoke shape, being screw-threaded an one lon er than the other. To secure the clip rigi ly and firmly in place upon the angle-bar, the edges of which its yoke-like body is adapted to fit, the ends, which project beyond the forward plane of the barB, are connected by a bar 5, and nuts 0 and c are a plied, respectively, tothe longer threaded end d of the clip and its shorter threaded end to fasten the clip in place, causing it to tightly and stably embrace the angle-bar.

At D are shown corrugated sheet-metal plates forming the sheathing. The wall-covering operation is performed by applying the plates in the usual manner, with their lateral edges overlap ing one.an'other, and bolting or riveting t em together. To fasten a sheathing-sheet near an end edge thereof, the operator taps itwith his hammer until he ascertains by tapping the position or point behind the sheet of a protruding clip end (1 with regard to which the setting of the plates C is such as to cause each end d to coincide with a corrugation. Upon ascertaining the position referred to the operator a plies his punch or set at the oint and rives the end 11 through the plate whereupon he applies a washer e on the-protruding end and (screws against it a nutf. With all the plates D forming the sheathing thus fastened to angle-bars B the sheathing is made rigidly secure and permanently durable throughout. When, as represented in Fig. i, the end edges TO JOHN S. METCALF' of two plates D overlap one another at points to be fastened, the longer clip ends (1 are unched through both layers, enabling the astening to be performed in each instance with one nut f and Washer e.

Sometimes it is desirable to position the angle-bars B on the building-walls, (and more especially under a shed or otherroof,) as represented in Figs. 4 and 5namely, with their angles innermost or adjacent to the wall or other surface. For such use I prefer to provide the clip of the form thereof represented at G, wherein it is made of bar-metal to fit about the angle-bar B, to which it is applied in the manner illustrated, and its then upwardly-projecting ends are coincidently per forated above the plane of the angle-bar for inserting through the perforations a nutheaded bar I), affording the connection for the ends and threaded on its forwardly-protruding extremity d to receive the nut c, j

which tightly fastens the clip on the anglebar. The protruding end of the bar (1 serves the same purpose as that of the end d of the form of the clip represented at O- namely, of presenting a tapping-point to be ascertained in the manner described" and punched through the sheathing, and thereupon receive a securing-nut and a washer e.

The drawings represent only the corrugated form of sheathing-plates fastened through the medium of'my improved clip, and that is the form thereof more commonl used. However, the clip affords an equal y desirable means for fastening any other ,form of metal sheathing in place upon metal structures.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is Y 1 As a new article of manufacture, a sheathing-fastenin clip for the purpose set forth,

composed o a body of general yoke shape adapted to fit about a su port and provided with screw-threaded end one of which is longer than the other to afford a point for penetratin the; sheathing, a bar through which sai ends pass for connecting them, and nuts screwed on said ends against "said bar, and another nut on said longer clip end.

2. In combination with a metal structure of the character described, clip-supports secured thereon, sheathing on said structure, and clips, eachcomprising a body of general yoke shape embracing a support and provided with an adjustable connection for its ends, by which to fasten it stably in place, and with a projecting point penetrating and fastened to said sheathing.

3. In combination with a metal structure of the character described, clip-supports secured thereon, corrugated sheathing on said structure, and clips, each comprising a body of general yoke shape transversely embracing a support and provided with .an adjustable connection for its ends by which to fasten it stably in place, and with a projecting point penetrating and fastened to said sheathing at an outwardlybulging section of its corrugation.

4. In combination with a metal structure of the character described, angle-bars secured thereon, sheathing on said structure, and clips,-each comprising a body of general yoke shape transversely embracing a bar and provided with an adjustable connection for its ends by which to secure it stably in place and with a projecting screw-threaded point penetrating said sheathing and carrying an outer fastening-nut.

5. In combination with a metal structure of the character described, angle-bars secured thereon, sheathing on said structure, and cli s comprising body portions of general yo e shape transversely embracing said bars at intervals thereon and each provided with an adjustable nut-fastened connection for its ends by which to secure it stably in place and with a screw-threaded point penetrating the sheathing and carrying an outer fasteningnut.

6. In combination with a metal structure of the character described, angle-bars secured thereon, sheathing on said structure, and clips comprising bod portions of general yo e shape transverse y embracing said bars at intervals thereon, each having a bar, con necting its ends, adjustably fastened in place for stably securing the yoke on its support, and provided with a screw-threaded point penetrating the sheathing and carrying an outer fastening-nut.

7. In combination with a metal structure of the character described, angle-bars secured on the walls of the structure, and sheathing. thereon, and clips comprising ody portions of general yoke sha e transvers ly embracing said bars at interva. s thereon an each having screw-threaded ends and a bar connecting.

JAMES SPELMAN.

In presence of- A. U. THORIEN, J. H. LANDEs 

